Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get "Application error". I have tried reinstalling but get the same "Application error" when I attempt to run it from the command line. Any thoughts?

> Tried that, and the same problem occurs.

On 05/22/2017 03:41 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: > On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: >>> Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to >>> crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is >>> no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly >>> and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get >>> "Application error". >>> >>> I have tried reinstalling but get the same "Application error" when I >>> attempt to run it from the command line. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >> My first try would be to move ~/.config/libreoffice to a temporary >> location and try again. >> > Tried that, and the same problem occurs. Uh, try "libreoffice --writer --norestore" so it tries to bring up the word processor but doesn't try to restore on a fatal error? Check the logs, too ("journalctl | grep libreoffice" for example). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

On 05/22/2017 04:45 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: > On 22/05/17 04:15 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 05/22/2017 03:41 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: >>> On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: >>>>> Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to >>>>> crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is >>>>> no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly >>>>> and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get >>>>> "Application error". >>>>> >>>>> I have tried reinstalling but get the same "Application error" when I >>>>> attempt to run it from the command line. >>>>> >>>>> Any thoughts? >>>> My first try would be to move ~/.config/libreoffice to a temporary >>>> location and try again. >>>> >>> Tried that, and the same problem occurs. >> Uh, try "libreoffice --writer --norestore" so it tries to bring up >> the word processor but doesn't try to restore on a fatal error? Check >> the logs, too ("journalctl | grep libreoffice" for example). >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com - >> - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - >> - - >> - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - >> - just very picky of who its friends are! - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Thanks Rick, > > Tried the "libreoffice --writer --nostore" command and got: That should have been "--norestore", not "--nostore" > Application Error > > > Fatal exception: Signal 6 Hmmm, a SIGABRT. Weird. > I assume you don't want to see all the stack info. > > I have checked the logs as you suggested, and there is some material > there, but I do not know how to interpret it. I assume you don't want to > see the grep output here. Uhm, no, don't post them here. You could stick them in pastebin or something and post a link to it here. Those interested (and smarter than I) could then look at it. > I have submitted bug reports to bugzilla. Good. I suspect they'll report "cannot duplicate", but who knows? > Thanks very much for the time and attention. It's annoying, I know. I had issues where documents written with LibreOffice and exported from it to Word format couldn't be re-imported by LibreOffice. Never did get that sorted. Had to open them with Word on a Mac, then save them, then copy them back to the Linux machine. THEN they could be re-imported. Absolutely looney. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks(a)alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If you can't beat your computer at chess...try kickboxing! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: >> Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to >> crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is >> no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly >> and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get >> "Application error". >> >> I have tried reinstalling but get the same "Application error" when I >> attempt to run it from the command line. >> >> Any thoughts? > > My first try would be to move ~/.config/libreoffice to a temporary > location and try again. > Tried that, and the same problem occurs.

Resending due to error in *not* sending to the list.... On 05/23/17 06:41, Paul Erickson wrote: > On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: >>> Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to >>> crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is >>> no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly >>> and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get >>> "Application error". >>> >>> I have tried reinstalling but get the same "Application error" when I >>> attempt to run it from the command line. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >> My first try would be to move ~/.config/libreoffice to a temporary >> location and try again. >> > Tried that, and the same problem occurs. > I see.... Assuming you're starting it from the command line with just "libreoffice" do you also have the problem if you start an individual component such as "libreoffice --writer". (FWIW, similar suggestion from Rick didn't help) And, if possible, have you tried logging in as another user and running libreoffice to eliminate your current environment? Also, FWIW, I've run into some "interesting" failures when shared libraries were updated and the older versions were still resident in memory. e.g. unable to logout of a KDE session via the GUI. So, sometimes logging out/in clears things up. You've indicated you've filed a BZ but didn't note the BZ number. Could you post it?